Sublime Text Settings and Dotfiles

There are tons of people who save Sublime Text configuration files in GitHub repositories, and there are tons of people who keep a collection of dotfiles. Maybe it's the difference between Linux and Mac users, but there are not a lot of people who have Sublime Text settings stored in their symlinked dotfiles. The distinction I make is this:

Most people that I've found with Sublime Text settings simply clone a 'sublime-text-settings' repository right over the top of the default directory.

Under a more Linuxy mindset, you'd have a repo of dotfiles which would contain your text editor settings and you'd create a symlink to have that program use those settings.

There are some exceptions, but the majority of dotfiles/Sublime Text collections that I've viewed either don't use Sublime Text or don't use dotfiles as they are usually organized. Why? I don't know. Maybe it's the distinction between old school Linux users with dotfiles refusing to leave vim and Mac users being unaware of the power and convenience of a widely-written-for Unix-like operating system and the use of a set of portable dotfiles. Whatever the reason, if you do use Sublime Text, be smart and use dotfiles as they're supposed to be used. I haven't found anyone who goes over it, so for anyone who needs a quick run through, here you go:

Great. Now that you have that installed, all of the Sublime Text 2 user settings are stored in the Packages/User directory of the Sublime data folder. Make a new directory called .dotfiles, copy your existing User directory to .dotfiles, remove the Packages/User directory and replace it with a symlink to .dotfiles: